Abraham Lincoln's Louisiana Speech
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we meet this evening not in sorrow but in gladness of heart. The evacuation of Petersburg in Richmond on the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy piece. Who's joyous expression cannot be restrained in the midst of this, however, he from whom all blessings flow must not be for gotten a call for a national Thanksgiving is being prepared and will be duly promulgated. Norma's those whose harder part gives us the course of rejoicing be overlooked. Their owners must not be parceled out with others. I myself was near the front and had the high pleasure of transmitting much of the good news to you. But no part of the owner for plan or execution is mine. To General Grant, his skillful officers and brave men all belongs. The gallant Navy stood ready but was not in reach to take active part. By these recent successes, The re inauguration of the National Authority Reconstruction, which has had a large share of thought from the first, is pressed much more closely upon our attention. It is fraught with great difficulty. Unlike a case of a war between independent nations, there is no authorized organ for us to treat with. No one man has the authority to give up the rebellion for any other man we simply must begin with and mold from disorganized and discordant elements. Nor is it a small, additional embarrassment that we, the loyal people, differ among ourselves as to the moat, manner and means of reconstruction.